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In the winter of 1611 a mysterious letter was received by the london merchants of the east india company the fact that it came from japan a forbidden and unknown land was a cause of wonder but even more remarkable was that the writer was an englishman by the name of william adams. Get this from a library samurai william the adventurer who unlocked japan giles milton the adventures of william adams the englishman who opened the east this book illuminates a jacobean world whose horizons were rapidly expanding and a japan that was still unknown to the rest of the . Samurai william the adventurer who unlocked japan by giles milton 2495 buy online or call us 61 3 9690 2227 from albert park 127 dundas place albert park victoria australia. Englishman william adams was one of only twenty four survivors of a fleet of ships bound for asia and he had washed up in the forbidden land of japan the traders were even more amazed to learn that rather than be horrified by this strange country adams had fallen in love with the barbaric splendour of japan and decided to settle. Samurai william the adventurer who unlocked japan by giles milton hodder and stoughton 2003 399 pages gbp799 isbn 0340794682 william adams was born on 24th of september 1564 in the fishing town of gillingham in kent in his youth he was trained as a shipwright and pilot the europeans would witness battles involving hundreds of